When AIDS officially began in
1981 the public was told that anal sex, drugs, and
homosexuality were at the root of the new "gay
plague." The first cases were all young, predominantly
white, and previously healthy
homosexual men from Manhattan who were dying mysteriously
from "gay pneumonia" and "gay cancer" in
the form of Kaposis sarcoma. The association with
homosexuality was so remarkable that the disease was
initially termed GRID ("gay-related immune
deficiency"). To this day, gays are still blamed for the
spread of AIDS into the U.S. population.

When the disease first broke out,
a new virus was suspected, but officials reassured "the
general public" there was nothing to worry about. Of
course, the health experts were wrong. Now most of the
worlds AIDS cases are heterosexuals. The AIDS virus
(HIV) can also be transmitted vaginally; and one does not
need to be a drug abuser, a promiscuous person or a
homosexual to contract AIDS.

The Green Monkey
Theory

Where did HIV originate? Prominent
cancer virologists and government epidemiologists have
theorised that HIV originated in African green monkeys.
Purportedly the monkey virus "jumped species" and
entered the black population. From there it migrated to Haiti
and Manhattan. After the virus entered the black heterosexual
population in the late 1970s, it rapidly spread to millions
of blacks because of transfusions with HIV-infected blood,
dirty needles, promiscuity and genital ulcers  or so
the experts said.

Not all scientists believe the official
monkey story, although it is rare to find people who express
this view publicly. One persistent underground rumor is that
AIDS is biological warfare. Proponents of the AIDS conspiracy
theory believe that AIDS has nothing to do with green
monkeys, homosexuality, drug addiction, genital ulcerations,
anal sex or promiscuity, but that it has to do with
scientists experimenting on blacks and gays: in short, AIDS
is genocide. Most African-Americans have heard the story that
HIV is a manufactured virus genetically-engineered to kill
off the black race. Thirty percent of New York City blacks
polled by The New York Times (October 29, 1990)
actually believe AIDS is an ethno-specific bioweapon designed
in a laboratory to infect black people.

Despite the general acceptance that HIV
came from monkeys and the rain forest, there is no scientific
evidence to prove that HIV and AIDS originated in Africa.
What is true is that the first AIDS cases were uncovered in
the U.S. in 1979, around the same time that AIDS cases were
discovered in Africa. In addition, no stored African tissue
from the 1970s tests positive for HIV. And scientists have a
hard time explaining how a black heterosexual epidemic
centered in Africa could have quickly transformed itself into
a white homosexual epidemic in Manhattan.

The Gay
Hepatitis-B Vaccine Experiment

Conveniently lost in the history of
AIDS is the gay Hepatitis-B vaccine experiment that
immediately preceded the decimation of gay Americans. A
"cohort" of over a thousand young gays was injected
with the vaccine at the New York Blood Center in Manhattan
during the period November 1978 to October 1979.1
Similar gay experiments were conducted in San Francisco, Los
Angeles, Denver, St. Louis, and Chicago, beginning in 1980.2
The AIDS epidemic broke out shortly thereafter.

The experiment was run by Wolf
Szmuness, a Polish Jew born in 1919. He was a young medical
student in eastern Poland when the Nazis invaded the country
in 1939. His entire family perished in the Holocaust. When
Poland was partitioned, Szmuness was taken prisoner and sent
to Siberia.

After the war, he was allowed to finish
medical school in Tomsk in central Russia. He married a
Russian woman, had a daughter, and in 1959 was allowed to
return to Poland where he became an expert in hepatitis.

According to June Goodfields
account of his life in Quest for the Killers, Szmuness
defected from Poland with his family in 1969, arriving
penniless in New York with $15 in his pocket.3
Through scientific connections he found work as a laboratory
technician at the New York Blood Center. Within a few years
he was given his own lab at the center and was also appointed
Professor of Public Health at Columbia University. By the
mid-1970s, Szmuness was a world authority on hepatitis, and
was invited back to Moscow in 1975 to give a scientific
presentation. As a defector he was terrified to set foot back
in the Soviet Union, but his colleagues assured him he would
have the full protection of the U.S. State Department. His
return to Russia was a scientific triumph.

In the late 1970s, Wolf Szmuness was
awarded millions of dollars to undertake the most important
mission of his life: the Hepatitis-B vaccine experiment.
Szmuness specifically wanted to use gay men to avoid
"serious legal and logistical problems."4
For his study he did not want monogamous men, nor men with
lovers. He chose only healthy, young, responsible,
intelligent, and primarily white homosexuals. The
experiment was costly and he didnt want any
uncooperative or hard-to-find gays messing up his experiment.
Involved in the experiment were the Centers for Disease
Control, the National Institutes of Health, the National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Abbott
Laboratories, and Merck, Sharp & Dohme. Szmuness
experiment was hugely successful, and his vaccine was hailed
as having tremendous global implications.

The Gay Plague

The links of the gay experiment to the
outbreak of AIDS are obvious to anyone who wants to see the
connection. Three months after the experiment began, the
first cases of AIDS reported to the CDC appeared in young gay
men in Manhattan in 1979. The first San Francisco AIDS case
appeared in that city in September 1980, six months after the
Hepatitis-B experiment started there.5 In June
1981 the AIDS epidemic became "official."

Were gay men given experimental
vaccines contaminated with the AIDS virus? The government
says no, but government agencies have a long history of
covert and unethical medical experimentation, particularly
with minorities. Was it simply a quirk of nature that a virus
"out of Africa" would suddenly decimate the most
hated minority in America?

Why did the U.S. government choose Wolf
Szmuness, a Soviet-trained doctor and a recent American
immigrant to head this dangerous experiment? Goodfield, who
has written the definitive account of the Hepatitis-B
experiment, claims Szmuness has a painful life. Confined as a
political prisoner in Siberia during World War II, he was
repeatedly interrogated and beaten by the Russian KGB for
refusing to cooperate in spy activities. When he could not be
broken, they warned him: "Say nothing of this to anyone,
but remember. We will reach you anywhere in the world. No
matter where you go, no matter where you try to hide, you
will never be out of our grasp."6

The experimental Hepatitis-B vaccine
was primarily manufactured by Merck. However, during the
experiment Szmuness was concerned about possible vaccine
contamination. Goodfield writes, "This was no
theoretical fear, contamination having been suspected in one
vaccine batch made by the National Institutes of Health,
though never in Mercks."7

After the Hepatitis-B experiment ended,
Szmuness insisted that all thirteen thousand blood specimens
donated by gay men be retained at the Blood Center for future
use. Due to space requirements, it is highly unusual for any
laboratory to retain so many old blood specimens. However,
several years later when this blood was retested for the
presence of HIV antibodies, government epidemiologists were
able to detect the "introduction" and the spread of
HIV into the gay community.

When asked why he was keeping so many
vials of blood, Szmuness replied, "Because one day
another disease may erupt and well need this
material."8 A few months after the
Hepatitis-B experiment began at the Center, the first AIDS
cases began to appear in gay men living in Manhattan. And the
retesting of gay blood at the Blood Center proved that HIV
was first introduced into the gay population of New York City
sometime around 1978-1979, the same year Szmuness gay
Hepatitis-B experiment began.9

Was Szmuness psychic in his prediction
that a new disease would appear in the gay community? Or did
he actually know or suspect that a new, deadly virus was
being introduced into the gay volunteers? Unfortunately, the
answers to these questions can only be surmised. In June 1982
Szmuness died of lung cancer. In his eulogy, Aaron Kellner of
the Blood Center wrote: "It is the rare physician who,
like Wolf Szmuness, is given the grace to touch the lives of
billions of people; those living on this planet and
generations yet unborn."10

The African
Origin of AIDS

Was HIV introduced into millions of
Africans in the late 1970s during the smallpox vaccine
eradication programs sponsored by the World Health
Organisation? It is known that animal and human cells harbor
all sorts of viruses, including viruses not yet discovered,
and animal tissue cell cultures are often used in the
manufacture of viral vaccines. Therefore, the possibility of
vaccine contamination with an animal virus is a constant
danger in the manufacture of vaccines.

Despite the most meticulous precautions
in production, contaminating animal viruses are known to
survive the vaccine process. For example, during the 1950s,
millions of people were injected with polio vaccines
contaminated with "SV-40", a cancer-causing green
monkey virus. Such vaccine contamination problems are largely
kept hidden from the public. Yet in spite of the known
danger, drug companies and physicians always pooh-pooh any
suggestion that AIDS could have arisen from animal
virus-contaminated vaccines. Animal cancer viruses are also
contained in fetal calf serum, a serum commonly used as a
laboratory nutrient to feed animal and human tissue cell
cultures. Viruses in calf serum can be carried over as
contaminants into the final vaccine product.

The problem of vaccine contamination by
fetal calf serum and its relationship to AIDS is the subject
of a letter by J. Grote ("Bovine visna virus and the
origin of the AIDS epidemic") published in the Journal
of the Royal (London) Society of Medicine in October
1988. Grote discounts the green monkey theory and questions
whether bovine visna contamination of laboratory-used fetal
bovine serum could cause AIDS. Bovine visna virus is similar
in appearance to HIV. Grote, a London-based AIDS researcher,
writes:

The seriousness of this becomes
apparent when we consider the manufacture of vaccines
requires the growth of virus in cell cultures using fetal
calf serum in the growth medium. The contamination of
vaccines with adventitious viruses has been of concern
for many years and the presence of virus-like structures
in virus-screened bovine serum has been
reported. It seems absolutely vital that all vaccines are
screened for HIV prior to use and that bovine visna virus
is further investigated as to its relationship to HIV and
its possible causal role in progression towards AIDS.

Millions of African blacks are
reportedly infected with HIV. This large number could never
have been infected by the simple act of a monkey virus
"jumping" over to infect one African in the late
1970s. If that were the case, why dont we now have
millions of AIDS cases in the U.S.? One logical explanation
for the millions of Africans infected is that the vaccines
used in the World Health Organisations mass inoculation
programs were contaminated. Was the contamination accidental
or deliberate? It is well-known in vaccine circles that the
vaccinia (cowpox) virus used in the manufacture of the
smallpox vaccine works well in genetic engineering. Charles
Pillar and Keith Yamamoto, authors of Gene Wars: Military
Control Over the New Genetic Technology, state:
"Researchers have been able to splice genes coding for
the surface coats of other viruses, such as influenza,
hepatitis, and rabies into vaccinia virus DNA. The result: a
broad spectrum vaccine with a coat of many
colors."11

In 1985, the Russians caused an
international furore by claiming that AIDS was caused by
experiments carried out in the USA as part of the development
of new biological weapons. Responding to this Soviet
accusation, Pillar and Yamamoto admit that "although no
evidence has been presented to support this claim,
manipulating genes to defeat the bodys immune system is
quite feasible."12

In Magic Shots, Allan Chase
claims that during the years 1966-1977, the WHO utilised
"200,000 people in forty countries  most of them
nondoctors trained by seven hundred doctors and health
professionals from over seventy participating countries
 spent $300 million, and used forty million bifurcated
vaccinating needles to administer 24,000 million (2.4
billion) doses of smallpox vaccine."13

On May 11, 1987, The London Times,
one of the worlds most respected newspapers, published
a front-page story entitled "Smallpox vaccine triggered
AIDS virus." The story suggests that African AIDS is a
direct outgrowth of the WHO smallpox eradication program. The
smallpox vaccine allegedly awakened a "dormant"
AIDS virus infection in the black population. Robert Gallo,
the co-discoverer of HIV, was quoted as saying, "The
link between the WHO program and the epidemic is an
interesting and important hypothesis. I cannot say that it
actually happened, but I have been saying for some years that
the use of live vaccines such as that used for smallpox can
activate a dormant infection such as HIV (the AIDS
virus)." The Times story is one of the most
important stories ever printed on the AIDS epidemic; yet the
story was killed and never appeared in any major U.S.
newspaper or magazine.

Despite covert human experimentation,
vaccine contamination problems, and the genetic engineering
of new and highly dangerous viruses, the medical
establishment ignores the AIDS bio-warfare issue. For
example, in the prestigious British Medical Journal (May
13, 1989), Myra McClure and Thomas Schultz wrote a paper on
the "Origin of HIV" and quickly disposed of the
idea that AIDS is connected to germ warfare. They simply
state: "Lack of supporting evidence precludes serious
discussion of such a bizarre hypothesis. This review deals
with the theories on the origin of HIV that are
scientifically plausible."

Thus, medical science ignores evidence
suggesting AIDS originated as a secret experiment. Most
physicians and microbiologists steadfastly hold on to the
illogical and improbable green monkey theory of AIDS. And the
major media remain silent, often dismissing the bio-warfare
theory as communist propaganda of the most malicious sort.
Forgotten is the connection between the National Academy of
Sciences and the military bio-warfare establishment in the
development of biological weapons for mass killings.

A decade before the first cases of
AIDS, Dr. Donald M. MacArthur, a spokesman for the U.S.
Department of Defense, told a Congressional Hearing that a
"super germ" could be developed as part of our
experimental bio-warfare program. This genetically engineered
germ would be very different from any previous microbe known
to mankind. The agent would be a highly effective killing
agent because the immune system would be powerless against
this super-microbe (Testimony before a Subcommittee of the
Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives,
Department of Defense Appropriations for 1970, dated July 1,
1969). A transcript of this meeting on "Synthetic
Biological Agents" records the following comments of Dr.
MacArthur:

1. All biological agents up to the
present time are representatives of naturally occurring
disease, and thus are known by scientists throughout the
world. They are easily available to qualified scientists
for research, either for offensive or defensive purposes.

2. Within the next 5 to 10 years,
it would probably be possible to make a new infective
microorganism which could differ in certain important
aspects from any known disease-causing organisms. Most
important of these is that it might be refractory to the
immunological and therapeutic processes upon which we
depend to maintain our relative freedom from infectious
disease.

3. A research program to explore
the feasibility of this could be completed in
approximately 5 years at a total cost of $10 million.

4. It would be very difficult to
establish such a program. Molecular biology is a
relatively new science. There are not many competent
scientists in the field, almost all are in university
laboratories, and they are generally adequately supported
from sources other than the Department of Defense.
However, it was considered possible to initiate an
adequate program through the National Academy of Sciences
 National Research Council (NAS-NRC). The matter
was discussed with the NAS-NRC, and tentative plans were
made to initiate the program. However, decreasing funds
in CB (chemical/biological) research, growing criticism
of the CB program, and our reluctance to involve the
NAS-NRC in such a controversial endeavor have led us to
postpone it for the past two years. It is a highly
controversial issue and there are many who believe such
research should not be undertaken lest it lead to yet
another method of massive killing of large populations...
Should an enemy develop it, there is little doubt that it
is an important area of potential military technological
inferiority in which there is no adequate research
program.

Was the AIDS virus, or other so-called
"emerging viruses" such as Ebola and Marburg
viruses, created in bio-warfare laboratories during the
1970s? During the 1970s, the U.S. Armys bio-warfare
program intensified, particularly in the area of DNA and gene
splicing research. Renouncing germ warfare except for
"medical defensive research," President Richard
Nixon in 1971 ordered that a major part of the Armys
bio-warfare research be transferred over to the National
Cancer Institute (where HIV would be discovered a decade
later by Gallo). That same year, Nixon also initiated his
famous War on Cancer, and offensive bio-warfare research
(particularly genetic engineering of viruses) continued under
the umbrella of orthodox cancer research. Cancer virologists
learned "to jump" animal cancer viruses from one
species of animal to another. Chicken viruses were put into
lamb kidney cells; baboon viruses were spliced into human
cancer cells; the combinations were endless. In due process,
deadly man-made viruses were developed, and new forms of
cancer, immunodeficiency, and opportunistic infections were
produced when these viruses were forced or adapted into
laboratory animals and into human tissue cell cultures.14

As predicted by the bio-warfare
experts, new cancer-causing monster viruses were created that
had a deadly effect on the immune system. In one
government-sponsored experiment reported in 1974, newborn
chimpanzees were taken away from their mothers at birth and
weaned on milk obtained from virus-infected cows. Some of the
chimps sickened and died with two new diseases that had never
been observed in chimps. The first was a parasitic pneumonia
known as Pneumocystis Carinii pneumonia (later known as
AIDS); the second was leukemia.15

Monkey Business

Almost two decades after the first U.S.
AIDS cases were diagnosed, most people still believe the
governments green monkey story; and AIDS educators
teach that HIV originated in Africa. However, a few cracks in
the monkey theory have appeared in print.

A story entitled "Research refutes
idea that human AIDS virus originated in monkey,"
appeared in the Los Angeles Times (June 2, 1988). In
the process of decoding the genetic structure of the monkey
virus and the human AIDS virus, Japanese molecular biologists
discovered that the gene sequences of the two viruses
differed by more than 50%  indicating absolutely no
genetic relationship between the green monkey virus and HIV.
The Japanese investigators specifically criticised Myron
Essex and Phyllis Kanki of Harvard Medical School, who
"discovered" a second AIDS virus in African green
monkeys that was widely heralded in the media. Essex and
Kankis "second" AIDS virus was later proven
to be a contaminant monkey virus traced back to the Harvard
researchers own laboratory.

More than a decade earlier, in 1975,
Gallo reported the "discovery" of a "new"
and "human" HL-23 virus he cultured from human
leukemia cells. Eventually the virus was proven to be three
contaminating ape viruses (gibbon-ape virus, simian sarcoma
virus, and baboon endogenous virus). Gallo claims he has no
idea how these animal viruses contaminated his research.16

If HIV is not related to a green monkey
virus, what is its origin? On November 13, 1988, The
Orange County Register devoted an entire section of the
newspaper to AIDS in Africa. Several African officials were
interviewed; all were adamant that AIDS did not originate in
Africa. The theory "is false and has never been
scientifically proved, so why should Africa be the
scapegoat?" declared Dr. Didace Nzaramba, director of
the AIDS prevention program in Rwanda. The Register commented:

From early on, scientists have
speculated that the disease might have begun in Africa.
Researchers in Africa tested old blood samples and said
they found HIV-infected serum that went back years. In
1985, Harvard researchers, Phyllis Kanki and Myron Essex,
announced the discovery of a new virus isolated in green
monkeys that seemed similar to HIV. Eventually,
researchers concluded that early blood tests used in
Africa were not reliable, and Kanki and Essex said their
blood tests probably had been contaminated and that their
results were invalid. But the perception of an African
link was established.

Media
Disinformation

With the publication of And The Band
Played On in 1987, the media became obsessed with author
Randy Shilts "Patient Zero" story. In the
popular, award-winning book, a young Canadian airline steward
named Gaeton Dugas is portrayed as the promiscuous gay man
"who brought the AIDS virus from Paris and ignited the
epidemic in North America." Shilts, who later died of
AIDS, never explained where or how Dugas got his infection.

After a year of swollen lymph nodes and
a rash, Dugas was finally diagnosed with AIDS-associated
"gay cancer" in June 1980 in New York City. What
Shilts probably did not know is that when Dugas was diagnosed
in 1980, over twenty percent of the Manhattan gays in the
Hepatitis-B experiment were HIV-positive. This 20% infection
rate was discovered after the HIV blood test became available
in 1985, and after the stored blood at the New York Blood
Center was retested for HIV antibodies (JAMA, Vol.
255, pp. 2167-2172, 1986). Remarkably, these gay men had the
highest recorded incidence of HIV anywhere in the world for
that time! Even in African populations, where AIDS has been
theorised to exist for decades, or even millennia, there were
never reports of such a high incidence of HIV in 1980.

Shilts sensational Patient Zero
story quickly became "fact." Even the AMA-sponsored
American Medical News (October 23, 1987) fell for the
ludicrous story, claiming that Dugas "may have brought
AIDS to the United States." The media continue to
promote unlikely stories about the origin of AIDS, always
avoiding discussion of the idea that HIV came out of a
laboratory, and always pointing the finger to black Africa.

In late 1987, the media widely reported
an "old AIDS case" dating back to 1968. DNA testing
of the blood and tissue was reported as HIV-positive.17
For the last year of his life, "Robert", a
15-year-old black boy from St. Louis, wasted away with a
bizarre disease that severely bloated his legs and genitalia.
His sexual preference was unknown, but his doctors tried hard
to insinuate the dying boy was gay. At autopsy, internal
Kaposis sarcoma of the rectum was discovered, along
with anal warts and lacerations. And after fingering the dead
boys rectum, the pathologist noted "a lax anal
sphincter." When newer viral identification techniques
were reapplied to Roberts blood in 1990, his blood
retested HIV-negative, proving that Robert never had AIDS.18

In 1990 the media sensationalised
another "old AIDS case," this time an unmarried
English sailor who died in Manchester in 1959. When his
stored tissue remains tested positive for HIV, major
newspapers throughout the world used this case to again
discredit the persistent rumor that AIDS was a man-made
disease. The New York Times (July 24) declared:

The case also refutes the widely
publicised charges made by Soviet officials several years
ago that AIDS arose from a virus that had escaped from a
laboratory experiment that went awry or was a biological
warfare agent. The human retrovirus group to which the
AIDS virus belongs was unknown at the time. Nor did
scientists then have the genetic engineering techniques
needed to create a new virus.

In a letter to the medical journal Lancet
in January 1996, this 1959 case was ruled not to be AIDS
because the DNA tests were found to be contaminated due to a
laboratory error.

Despite the denial of the Times regarding
the laboratory creation of new AIDS-like viruses, it was
common practice during the early 1970s for virologists to
alter animal viruses by inserting them into other animal
species and into human tissue cells in culture. Experiments
performed at Harvard in the mid-1970s by Max Essex and Donald
Francis (two of the best-known AIDS experts) produced AIDS in
cats with the feline leukemia retrovirus. In addition, a
decade before the outbreak of AIDS in the U.S., Robert Gallo
was engineering cancer-causing retroviruses and studying the
effects of viral mutants and their ability to suppress the
immune system. A full description of Gallos animal
retrovirus research activities dating back to 1967 is
chronicled in Emerging Viruses, AIDS and Ebola: Nature,
Accident or Genocide? by Dr. Leonard Horowitz.19

Secret and
Covert
Biological Warfare Research

It is difficult, if not impossible, to
determine the truth about global biological warfare
capabilities and their possible effects on world health. The
American taxpayer is kept ignorant about U.S. chemical and
bio-warfare programs. Scientists involved in bio-warfare
research are sworn to secrecy and silence. Thus,
"classified" and "top secret" medical
experimentation continues to be promoted by powerful
government agencies, such as the CIA, the CDC, the Department
of Defense, the military, and other institutions.

Recent revelations of horrific
radiation experiments conducted on unsuspecting U.S. citizens
during the Cold War years up until the 1980s have shocked the
nation. Some of this research was conducted at the most
prestigious medical institutions in our country. None of the
perpetrators have been brought to trial. In light of these
revelations, it is inconceivable to think that leading AIDS
scientists would be unaware of the connections between their
institutional research and the bio-warfare establishment.

Currently, strange and unprecedented
diseases are mysteriously appearing in various parts of the
world. The peculiar Persian Gulf War Syndrome
has sickened over 50,000 of our vets who served in Desert
Shield/Storm. Their illnesses have been largely dismissed by
health experts as due to "psychological stress,"
even though there is evidence that this new disease is
contagious and sexually-transmitted. Nevertheless, government
health officials remain silent on these issues.

A few scientists insist that some cases
of Gulf War Syndrome are related to biological warfare
agents. Dr. Garth Nicholson and his wife Nancy, formerly
scientists at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston,
have discovered in the blood of some sick reservists a new
infectious microbe (a mycoplasma) that has part of the AIDS
virus spliced into its genetic material! The Nicholsons say:
"The type of mycoplasma we identified was highly unusual
and it almost certainly didnt occur naturally. It has
one gene from the HIV-1 virus  but only one gene. This
meant it was almost certainly an artificially modified
microbe  altered purposefully by scientists." (National
Enquirer, April 2, 1996).

By censoring certain aspects of AIDS
history, particularly the origin of HIV, we allow dangerous
medical experimentation to continue. The New York Blood
Center is now testing a new vaccine made from a
"harmless" canary-pox virus that has been
genetically engineered to carry parts of HIV, the AIDS virus.
The Center is recruiting HIV-negative gay men by funding
Project Achieve, an organisation designed to test and sign-up
young men for the new vaccine experiment. Homosexual men are
lured into the program by posters that feature cute,
multi-ethnic gay boys. According to Timothy Murphy of HX magazine,
there is a waiting list for the Centers vaccine
experiment. Gay men are urged to sign-up with Project Achieve
at (212) 388-0008.

The enigmatic Dr. Szmuness has been
erased from AIDS chronicles. His name does not appear in
Shilts Band, nor in Mirko Grmeks History
of AIDS (1990), or in Laurie Garrets massive tome
on emerging viruses, The Coming Plague (1994).
Although his untimely death went largely unnoticed in medical
journals, he was remembered and honored on May 11, 1984, by a
small coterie of medical power brokers and distinguished
scientists who convened at a landmark symposium in the U.S.
capitol. The meeting entitled "Infection, Immunity, and
Blood Transfusion" was sponsored by the American Red
Cross.20

Paying tribute to Szmuness were top
government scientists in AIDS and cancer research, the most
well-known researchers in animal experimentation, the heads
of the most prestigious biomedical establishments in the
country, and the chief executives of drug companies tied to
genetic engineering, vaccine production, and biological
warfare research. Dr. Robert Gallo, who had announced the
discovery of the AIDS virus to the American public three
weeks earlier, was one of the most distinguished attendees.

There is an ominous link between cancer
and AIDS, between animal experimentation and the genetic
engineering of viruses, between biological warfare technology
and drug companies, between gay experiments and AIDS, between
vaccine programs and the contamination of the nations
blood supply. Why else would all these people from diverse
areas of science be attending this high level government
conference?

There is also a connection between
Szmuness gay experiment and the outbreak of AIDS that
cannot be denied. This connection is not coincidental or a
paranoid fantasy. It is time for a serious study of the link
between covert biological warfare research and the initial
outbreak of the "gay AIDS plague." Ignoring
evidence pointing to AIDS as a man-made disease makes a sham
out of AIDS education.